Prof. David Hansen

"The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.” Upon first reading this statement by Immanuel Kant, Suzanne Choo, PhD candidate in English Education, was haunted by the desire to discover Kant’s meaning. Finding his words paradoxical in light of violent acts that have been committed by those with close engagements with art and literature, …

The Philosophy Outreach Program is an after-school project designed to engage high school students in philosophical discourse. A collaboration between the Philosophy and Education Program at TC and the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, the Program involves eight neighboring high schools and forty high school students. The Outreach Program’s teachers visit the schools in …